He attained a second class degree in Literae Humaniores in 1817 at University College, Oxford, and was elected a Fellow in the same year.
He was also a member of the Delegacy (building committee), established on 8 April 1854, that set up the Oxford University Museum.
[3] Augustus Hare, who matriculated at University College in 1853, said of him: "It would be impossible to discover a more perfect ‘old gentleman’ than Dr Plumptre, though he was often laughed at.
He had an old-fashioned veneration for rank, and let Lord Egmont off lectures two days in the week that he might hunt – 'it was so suitable.
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